God’s Bits of Wood

Name: God’s Bits of Wood
Author: Ousmane Sembène
ISBN: 9780435909598

by Ousmane Sembène

Description of God’s Bits of Wood

In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Throughout this novel, written from the workers’ perspective, the community social tensions emerge, and increase as the strike lengthens. The author’s other novels include Xala and Black Docker.